St. Landry democrat., 1887-10-01
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importance at Home
and Abroad.

Events of Importance at Hom'
and Abroad.
A gale from the northeast caused grea
damage at Portugal Cove Newfoundland
Many boats were driven ashore from thei
moorings, and others were dashed agains
the cliffs and destroyed. At Placentia sev
eral crafts were driven seaward and have no
since been heard from. AT Bonavista al
sorts of wreckage is strewn along the shore
| Twenty boats were driven ashore and sever
sunk at their moorings. The loss will b.
heavy. A man named Learned was blown
into the water from wharf and drowned.
Chief of Police Harris. of Wichita, Kan.
received telegram from Caldwell to arres
Charles Brown, aged seventeen years. The
| complaint was horse stealing and burglary
The officer met boy at the depot whom h,
took for Brown, and when he attempted tt
arrest him the boy fed. The officer free
four shots at him, the last taking effect and
resulting fatally. The boy proved to be A
II. Ford, of Meridian, Tex.
A dispatch from Killeen, Tex, says thai
as Fayette and John Darnelle were return
ing home from Galesville they were fred
upon from thicket and John was instantly
killed. One of the mbushers, Newton Black.
well, was killed also. 1t is not yet known
how many persons were in ambush. New
ton Blackwell was brother of Rev. Richard
Blackwell, who was waylaid and killed three
weeks before.
The American consul at Buenos Ayres re-
ports to the State Department the results of
recent explorations of TERRA del Fuego. Con-
trarysto common belief, founded upon re-
ports of early nayigators who failed to pene-
trate the interior, the archipelago contains
valuable farming lands, forest and mineral
deposits. 1t is peopled by two distinct races
OF savages-one being well formed and re-
markedly strong, subsisting chiefly by the
chase; the other, coast people, physically
inferior, but not deficient in intelligence
The Argentine government is taking steps to
colonize and develop the islands; governor
has been appointed and thorough scientific
exploration is to be undertaken.
Near Forest, O., the first section of Pitts
burg, Chicago and Fort Wayne freight train
broke down and the second section ran into
it, killing John Bouch, fireman. Several
cars of oil in the second section caught fire,
and a car loaded with dynamite exploded,
destroying several cars, tearing up the track
andinjuring the engineer of the second Sec
ton and tramp.
Isaac Reed, leading merchant and ship
builder of Waldoboro', Me-, died, aged
seventy-eight years.
Homesteaders are rushing into the wilder
ness, near Baraga, Mich, to take up the
lands recently taken away from the railroad
company by ruling of the Interior Depart
ment. The lands comprise 25s,0Oo acres of
unsolicited and unimproved mineral, pine,
hard wood and farming lands.
The governor of New Mexico, in his an
nual report to the Secretary of the Interior,
says that at the present rate of increase the
census of 1890 will show population in the
Territory of not less than 100000. During
the past year there has been an increase of
public schools under the compulsory law
passed by the last Legislature. The Catholic
Church supports fifteen schools, the Con-
gregational four, the Presbyterian three, and
the Methodist two.
1t is stated that number of detectives
have arrived at Nashville Tenn, mainly
from outside the State as it is supposed, in
the interest of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. The people of the county vote on
the proposition to subscribe $5OO,O0 to the
Tennessee Midland railroad, which is to run
from Memphis through Nashville to Bristol,
where it connects with the Virginia Midland,
thus giving competing line east The
Louisville and Nashville has been fighting
the proposition, and it is rumored that the
detectives are to watch the employees on
election day, and see that they vote with
their employers.
The employees of Wood & Beecher's fac
tory at Cohoes, N. Y, have struck and de-
the discharge of Superintendent Al
fred Rider as condition Of returning to
work. He is not a knight of Labor and re-
mained at work during the recent strike.
As a result of the formation of the whiskey
trust, according to dispatch from Peoria
ILL.,, number of distilleries at Cincinnati
St. Louis and Chicago have been closed and
The operating capacity of the Peoria distil-
leries increased correspondingly, so that the
ASF3N "a SIdlu IUCESdScO 1TOIu
l5, f8s bushels to 2s,216 bushels. 1t is the
purpose Of the trust to manufacture the bulk
Of the whiskey where it can be done the
cheapest, and it has been demonstrated that
his can be done at Peoria.
The George Weber Brewing Company, of
have made an assignment Their
liabilities are estimated at 100000 and
assets al $35O,000. Preferences in the form
If mortgages on real estate, amounting to
s2O3, 900, were given. The fire on July
:rippled the company to the extent of
,early $500, 900, as not cent Of insurance
las yet been paid.
Two passenger trains on the Chicago, Mil
Taukee and st. Paul railroad collided on a
urve about two miles from Dubuque, Ia.
soth engines were smashed and five train
nen-Charles Fales and Elmer Winchester,
ngineers; William Richmond and Edward |
fremen, and John Pernitz,
killed. The express mes
enger, postal clerk and several passengers
rere injured, but not dangerously. The dis
ster is charged to the negligence Of the train
ispatcher at La Crosse.
The Central Hotel, in South street, New /
FORK, was damaged.by fire recently. Two Of
be dodgers, Captain Nelson Lampman and
'homas Trogan, perished in the building,
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